The lush and gold-rich San Lucas Mountains in Colombia's Southern Bolivar province seem calm at first glance.  Here, isolated mining communities hug the steep mountain slopes.  Unfortunately, these mountains also harbour a bloody war.  Most Colombian government officials, courting gold-mining multinationals, present a different picture of the region as they sell off the mineral rights to these corporations.  Yet, the facts remain clear; most small miners in this region have had a family member killed or "disappeared."  They are caught in a three-way battle over land, in the middle of the FARC and ELN guerilla groups, the Colombian regular army battalions and the paramilitary or "mercenary hired guns."  The miners fear that the Army and paramilitary are working to clear the land of what the Colombian ministry of mines has referred to in a brochure as "a plague," i.e.,  the small campesino miner.